Taiwan gets really serious when it comes to eating, the food culture here is something unique and the fact that eating outside, most of the times, could be cheaper than cooking yourself has created a country with an amazing offer of restaurants, food stands, night markets, food courts and other places to enjoy the different Taiwanese delicatessen.

But where to start?! If you decide to go for a food adventure in one of the nightmarkets around the city, you will quickly realise that maybe one or two days are not enough to try all the special dishes Taiwan can make for you, also sometimes can be difficult to spot what are the local taiwanese foods and what foods comes from other countries.

So we have decided make a list with the 20 local foods you should try when coming to Taiwan.

To complete the article we counted with the amazing work of talented illustrator Tango Chow from Hong Kong!